Geriatric RV Park Botany Tour
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- čas přidán 10. 05. 2024
- In this episode we survey a number of ex-situ conservation plots in an RV park and gated community cared for by some of America's seniors. Pachycereus pringlei, Pseudobombax ellipticum and a number of other interesting and large cacti and sarcocaulescent plants dominate the scene in an otherwise bland (and summer-vacant) suburban neighborhood.
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Thanks, GFY.
I just want to share how proud I am of my daughter. She is about to purchase her first house, in San Antonio, and had committed to using her yard to recreate some small portion of the Blackland Prairie that has been almost completely decimated by farming and development. She came to live with me from Haiti when she was 12, and now she is healing people in medical practice and planning to heal her corner of the earth. So proud.
We need more people like her!! Thank you
That's awesome!
Glad you shared this, SO proud of her, and you too! Keep walking the Beauty Way. 🙏🕊️🪶
You raised her the right way
top tier dad comment right here. happy for yall
I wish I could step out of my house and see a guy motioning towards all the plants while yelling at random birds. That would be more interesting!
Be the change you want to see
My girlfriend gets that experience each time we go out
Here, here!
Love it when you trespass to look at cool ass plants 😂
We're calling it an unpaid security and landscape inspection lol
all property is theft.
Same, If I pulled these stunts where I live some geezer with a shotgun would roll up on me lol
@@wesst.422 yeah look ive had a kindly gentleman threaten to cut my head off, so uh, pick yer battles
@@jaredknapp8886you'll own nothing and be happy as a caveman
“The prairie remnants at the back of old cemeteries in the Midwest.” Would be an amazing series. 250yo patches of otherwise locally extirpated species, galore
"Neighborhood does look somewhat revolting, I'm not gonna lie. I see this and wanna die, but - at least it's not grass." 🤣🤣🤣 💯💯💯
“Gwan ya fuckin’ degenerates!” 😂
15:10 my dad always called those gazing balls ”a shrine to the unknown bowler”
man my brother recently died from a fentanyl OD. Me and him loved herpetology and just all wildlife in general he really had an appreciation for nature
Sending you a hug. I'm sorry to hear that
Sorry for your loss
Sorry for your loss. My brother passed from the same stuff.
I'm sorry to hear that, my friend. That shit started showing up right around the time I quit doin drugs, but a lot of my friends weren't so lucky. It's really nasty shit. I hope you can find peace and then the anger and motivation to become an advocate for other people like your brother and my friends. I'm working on the second one, myself.
sade, a killdeer cameo, and trespassing for education. what more could you need
This was an awesome video. Really loved the killdeer and her nest. Amazing camouflage on the eggs and the mother. I've never seen that trick leading danger away from the nest. I was also struck by the fact that nobody in the area was trying to grow anything remotely resembling a lawn. One of my favorite videos I've seen of yours, and I've seen alot of em...
I live on a mountain in SoCal where we have an abundance of cool wildlife. The quail are similar in that they will make a commotion and try to lead people and animals away from their nests. The baby quail are so adorable when they run after the parents. Sadly, everything loves to eat quail, so they have huge broods of chicks just to have a few make it to adulthood.
I was just watching a leopard lizard outside, those guys crack me up. They have ridiculously long tails, and when they think I'm a predator, they put on a show as if that tail weighs five pounds and they can barely move from the weight.
Once it realizes I have no intention of eating it, it scampers away in a flash. I'm pretty sure I heard this one say, "Go feck yourself!" as it ran away. They escape predators by enticing them to bite its tail, then the lizard runs away without its tail, but quickly grows a new one. The severed tail whips around for awhile as if it's alive, which keeps the predator busy!
There's a channel called Lesley the Bird Nerd who's made hand feeding friends in the woods of Canada. Her videos of Chickadees in the nesting box are amazing. Momma birds are the shit!
@@katiekane5247 I love her channel! I learn from her, even though the birds where I live now are different. I grew up in the city where there wasn't such diversity.
I just hung 2 new hummingbird feeders outside that I made from green beer bottles. To my delight, a tiny female Anna's hummer (Calypte anna) just came and fed from one while I was still holding the feeder. I was holding very still not to scare her. It's a thrill to see them just inches away!
I love the killdeer and the babies. Plenty of them on the Busch campus of Rutgers standing their ground!
@@LazyIRanch We had a cat do that to a southern alligator lizard in our yard. If I remember this right, my husband stuck the tail in his shirt pocket while it was still twitching. Or maybe I was hallucinating. These days, way too many cats, and no lizards.
love is not a reward. it is a regard. and you regard the world with such love it is a delight. thank you.
I could not agree more! I'm fortunate to live off-grid in a wilderness area in S. California on Mt. San Jacinto. I just walk around outside feeling an overwhelming love for this place and its abundant wildlife. I was just outside having a nice visit with the friendly ravens that chose to live here about 8 years ago. Under my solar panels is an ideal, safe nesting spot.
They are the best guard animals I've ever known! If a car heads our way, they let me know, and they warn me when there's mountain lions or bobcat stalking my goats.
I wish Tony would visit my area, I've learned about some plants here, but it's getting where the invasive crap is taking over. At least I can eat the wild mustard plant that some douche brought here back in the 1800s. It's not native, and neither are the damn tumbleweeds. I hate those things! I'm glad my goats love to eat them though.
One of their favorite treats are the dried yucca pods left in late Summer after the yuccas have completed their cycle of life. The goats crunch them happily like they're potato chips.
Bro is out here making me learn the definitions of "regard", AND think introspectively about my use of language.
Even in the comments, you always learn something new on this channel!
@@jacobflack7747I like the cut of your jib
I haven't got my glasses on, did you say it's a RETARD?
"A wino takin a shit against a brick wall"! Classic! LOL!
This guy gives me hope for humanity. So funny, knowledgeable and keepin it real. Much ❤from the Canary Islands xx
Joey! Over here. Hey, maybe you can go to the Canary Islands and do a tour there!
It would be lovely to see him talking shit about the hellish landscaoe of the touristy places in the islands, and the loosing his shit when he sees the endemic flora and fauna for good while explaining it
The problem is Devil runs the world. He is lier and murderer. This is the reason why Hitler got the power, but Christ was executed as "blasphemer" and "rioter" by denunciation of clergy.
That's why we've got the Gospel about the God's kingdom. Jehovah would put everything in order. The dead will be resurected and we'll meet our beloved ones again! :-)
It fills my heart with joy that all the cool people I know all listen to Sade and love nature. Now I know Joey's also among them.
It's no ordinary love... ;)
Love the content. Inspired me to spend some time in the garden with my wife, and what do you know? I love stopping to take a look around. I feel like I'm occupying my body rather than feeling like a fuckin brain in a jar going from some shit I gotta do to some other shit I gotta do.
Me on a first date: "A lot of people don't know there's a lot of variation among columnar cacti..."
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There used to be Kill Deers here and red winged black birds, now they are super rare, not enough open land for them anymore, but we have lots of empty strip malls.
There's a small group of red-wings that lives in a man-made wetland on one of the highway offramps here. The cloverleaf captured all the water and now it's all cat-tails and tall grasses.
More of these! My first video was you doing a rail road yard and these kinds of vids really help people find the channel and pay attention to plants. Side of the freeway, school playground, dump etc I want to see them all haha
I live in one of those parks in California. I moved incto care for my grandma and when she passed my mom moved in so we could keep the place. We still pay the same base lot fee my grandpa paid when he bought the place back in the 90s, there's extra stuff for all the work they've been doing to fix the place up and update the roads and watermains and stuff. The people here love succulents and there's a lot of nice stuff planted in people yards. You still get some horticultural atrocities and fake lawns but it's a pretty nice place. I've been planting a lot of native plants and haven't used any pesticides since I moved in and even though its been extra hard fighting the weeds its been worth it because I saw two native salamanders this year on opposite sides of our plot.
He's just joking guys, if you dont know the names of the flower sexy parts you can still watch
A geriatric village ecology.. freeway ramp ecology.. train track ecology.. Oakland slums ecology.. at this rate I will not be a bit surprised if one day our man Tony will be in a hazmat suit doing a Chernobyl nuclear fallout ecology exposé
Imagine the misanthropic rants on that video...
You should see the ecology of a northern Kentucky yard of someone who has chronic fatigue. Dozens of plant varieties
There are some amazing plant and animal species repopulating the exclusion zone around Chernobyl. Because there has been limited human activity for decades, many have grown to take back areas that were damaged in the past.There is a British travel blogger on CZcams called Bald and Bankrupt who has done some interesting documentaries from that region, as well as many others. His Chernobyl episodes are well worth watching. He has a similar mistrust of authority and the establishment, with an off-beat sense of humour and an irreverence which is very like Joey's.
If I lived near a place like that, I'd find a property that already has a bunch of lawn ornaments, and then every year when the owner is away I would discreetly add a new one just to see how far I could take it
Lawn gnome adventures...
Howdy from Mason in the west hill country. My prickly pear are going crazy and my green beans, tomatoes and my serranos are going crazy
"Cause she's a smood operaderr...' 😂 love this guy!
Wow, those trees remind of something straight out of Dr. Seuss. How fucking cool are those! Thanks for sharing!
I love those trees! Never seen them before. It reminds me of a Mimosa tree on acid.
There is actually a plant some people call a Seuss plant. It was called Coreopsis gigantea, but they have changed the name. Succulent stems, with a mop of finely divided green leaves on top, and yellow daisy type flowers. I killed the one I tried to grow in my yard, but in spring 2023, as we drove on Pacific Coast Highway around the west end of the Santa Monica Mountains in southern California, I saw them growing and blooming all over the hillsides.
I've only ever been trapped inside during the winter ONCE! During the Blizzard of '77. I was trapped at school for days. Otherwise, I've lived in the far north and have braved all temps outside. It's beautiful. You just have to dress for it. The problem with the heat is you can't do anything once it gets too hot. I love the winter and spring and autumn. Summer... you can have it.
Ah, yes. Northern Wisconsin here. Lots of clothes, trudging over ice and snow with my sharp treads on. It’s when the temps go so low for so long that I get scared. But then again I don’t like air conditioning. 😌
Trapped at school for days?! Holy cow
Cold is often deadly and is much more dangerous than heat.
Summers are Early Mornings and Evenings for me.
@@jul.escobar snowed in at college most likely ... big New England storm that year
Dude you got to make a shirt where your stare up at that huge beautiful organ pipe cactus saying "wow, I said wow" lol
The humans: this is fine, take a cutting if you like.
The birds: someone call 911!! THIS IS PRIVATE LAND!
I would never have pegged Joey as a Sade fan. He strikes me as more of a Swans guy,
He's just too shy to admit his collection is all Nickelback, Bette Midler and Herb Alpert, so he looked up who would be more acceptable to claim he was listening to.
Sade is the goat. Sweetest Taboo is an absolute banger
And No Ordinary Love!
The combination of that sense of humor, the accent, the vocabulary and depth of knowledge, is killing it and rocking my ingrained stereotypes.
The gravel is killing me how bout a couple mesquite’s something to create shady oasis
The proper term is "Broken-wing Display".....so cool!
Urban CPBBD episodes are my favorite
Heck yeah. They're the best. Not everyone can get out to a distant, wild, isolated habitat, but we can all start noticing and appreciating what's growing in the cracks of the sidewalk and attempting to restore some native plants and ecosystems.
Brother. My dad (RIP) owned a nursery down in S. Texas. Stuart Place Nursery.
He also loved loved loved cacti. Please if you get the chance, maybe you could ask permission from the current owner to checkout the massive prickley pear tree that was in his backyard down in La Feria, Texas. Drive down S. Parker road and you'll see it in the backyard of an old spanish villa style home - it was whitewash brick when I was last there.
Half of the thing was taken out by Hurricane Ida when I napping in the enclosed porch, but its still HUGE.
Joey, you got da style 😎
Never understood wanting to live with other old people but I'd run cover for you. We could tell the cops we were scoping out homes for my old ass. I may enjoy shining them on when useful.
A wino taking a shit against a brick wall... you make me laugh, T.
Surprised it wasn’t one of those little “porch jockeys” holding the lanterns people used to have lining their driveways. Then they painted them all white during the civil rights movement in the 60s.
Momma Kildeer is a good momma bird. Strange to see her standing above her nest full of eggs with Joey right there.
Where's the garden gnomes with the frigging cowboy hats? Wow a shaving brush tree. Not native to Texas nor Florida
where they are popular too, but wow it is an eye catcher of a tree if you want to see hummingbirds.
Snowbird garden tour dedicated to Sade >> botany excellence.
Great education of plant and human cultures.
I love how you talk to the birds, Joey! They love it!
Technically he’s yelling at the birds… but ok.
This hits home some of my favorite plants near my house are on senior communitys
He checks off all the boxes for me;
knowledgeable, erudite, funny asf and just sociopathic enough but not so much to pose any threats!
*”Goodnight and gfys.”* 😂
When I get old I'm going to have a Sehkmet statue -- the Queen of pestilence and fire plagues -- discourages littering!
“She’s nesting in the front yard cause ain’t nobody home” sounds like something you would say before dragging someone by their edges 😂
Love the energy of "I wonder what it tastes like - I'm gonna try some" then the immediate cut away.
Wow Tony, you are better than ever. Thanks for the lesson. I’ve been away too long.
I'm "older" and "more conservative" and I think the huge cactus is great. Wouldn't dream of cutting it down if was mine. Not sure what "older", "more conservative" people you hang with but the ones i know are cool af. Just saying...
thanks for sharing this cheers from another Mission Texas resident!
thank you Sade
Sade!!!!! Amazing content brother.
This episode is a masterpiece. So many levels of knowledge and wisdom. Thank you Tony.
Big fan of the Psuedobombax Ellipticum in pink. Brings in bats, hawk moths, butterflies and hummingbirds. Brought a clone back to costa rica from my parent’s garden in mexico. We’re in a rare climate area of dry rain forest where it has thrived. Loveitloveitloveit
Check out da smooth operator, ova der.
So funny! ‘People start over thinking stuff & get a skid steer…’. Very cool stuff!
Instant Classic.
Yeah, Sade made some nice music! I'm always doubtfull how to pronounce 'Sade'.
Oh yeah, nice plants and birds too! Thanks for showing this stuff!
Holy shit, I fucking love this channel. Smart guy, funny, heavy midwestern accent, and hot to boot. SO entertaining!
Midwestern?
@@markchinguz4401 Chicago.
@@TootightLautrec I mean, you could classify it as a midwestern accent. Like, you could, doesn't mean you should
@@markchinguz4401 Ha! I see your point. Being from the midwest myself, I know the grating confusion our accent creates. I also recognize he exaggerates it for comic effect, which I appreciate beyond measure.
@@TootightLautrec I would personally say a chicagoan accent is just chicago, midwestern sounds way different in my opinion there bud. But I have never even been to the US so your opinion is better than mine!
🤣Your commentary on the killdeer killed me! no pun intended.
Love this channel particularly cause of the Chitowm accent makes me feel back at home. Would love to see my favorite bird, Common Nighthawk nesting in those rocks. Hey tanks for da channel!
From the Wisconsin/Illinois border on the Rock River, I admire your excellent show and your exploratory travels through the south Texas retirement neighborhood. I hope someday to live in that cactus infested retirement neighborhood in heaven, and I hope a genuine botanist lives next door to punctuate my walks around the block, explaining what all the different cacti are, and point out the birds nearby, as they swear and run or swoop raucously, and try to draw me away from their nests in the stone yard, or on the cactus 20 feet overhead. I love how you make your journey, and find amazing living things everywhere. Well done!
I love this guy makes me laugh every time I watch his video and educational to boot
I dunno how I saw this video last week but anyway, it did a stellar job changing the page on a going-nowhere conversation with my folks about politics nonsense. turned out they have a pseduobombax in their front yard (down there on the border). we hopped in the car to go to look at a cactus they wanted to show me lol.
Plants and Sade, NICE! Really enjoyed this video, Joey.
I imagine there is a future where video documentation of a species is the only proof it existed, I certainly have never seen these before. You are doing gods work.
Been seeing this guys thumbnails for years and after loads of people recommending him I clicked , ooooooooh he’s Fkn entertaining I’ll be back.
Same… then mysteriously one day two of his local eco tour vids showed up in my YT feed and my life has never quite been the same.
I just found this guy. From his accent, his vibe, to his philosophy, I adore him. I don't know what I love more. His cursing and roasting of shit plants has me dead. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
You mentioned the echinocactus at 4:10 look like pillows. Well you'll be delighted to hear that in France we call them "mother-in-law's pillows" 😂
Little seat-pillow cacti are also called “poufs”.
@@myinnermagpie
Hmm, in London they also use that term, but not for cacti… 🤔
There's a quiet storm. And it never felt this hot before.
And people keep trying to convince themselves that it’s the same as last year and the year before and that nothing has changed. How long can people stay in denial? I mean, isn’t Falcon lake at 15% capacity..?, and yet people still going crazy for lawns…🤦♂️
@@el_chavez Perhaps you ought to become wilfully ignorant on the topic, live your life, and be better for it. First of all do you really believe people choosing whether or not to run their sprinklers in the summer has the ability to change weather patterns? Secondly, you are replying to lyrics from a Sade song, check it out because it's a classic.
@@robertfischer5893 so us wasting water on unnecessary stuff when we are seeing the possibility of water wars in the near future won’t have an impact? OK bud…stay willfully ignorant…the saying exists for a reason, “Ignorance is bliss…”.
@@el_chavez Yes I'll enjoy bliss to the best of my ability. You on the other hand - faced with the stress of having to publicly maintain the belief that turning off sprinklers in the summer will alter the course of human history - will likely eat pills to cope with the stress, piss them out, and pollute the water you seem to care so much about. Remember don't flush after every #1 it might save the planet.
This dude going off with no idea this is just Sade and she sang the lyric in like 1987 🤣🤣
I love it when Joey gets in a verbal scuffle with the local wildlife 😂
And the lawn decor (not to mention the flags!) 😂
"if you don't know cactus morphology, i don't want you here"
The horror and the beauty. There's a Sufi parable in there somewhere.
You are the funniest plant CZcamsr point blank period.
I've never really bothered to check, to be honest, but I was surprised to learn that Kiskadees are not "Brazil-only" birds. These guys are loud af but what a nice serenade they make in the late afternoons. Fun fact: in br_pt they're called "Bem-te-vi", which kinda translates to "I'm watching you"
I really enjoyed this episode, well I enjoy them all but to see what can be done instead of lawns is informative and entertaining.
18 minutes of well spent time watching this video. Of course, I won’t remember any of the scientific names, but I respect the plants more.
I love cactus. I visit my family in AZ usually once a year and have always been intrigued by these beautiful cacti and the desert landscape❤️
❤❤So happy I found a nature lover who has no filters 😂😂😂😂like myself 😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤
“Religious iconography, wino dwarfs and pink flamingos… I’m feeling this hard!” 😂
Such a good video I brought my boyfriend over to watch it again. Thanks for making great content that has us laughing and teaches something new!
These plants are so nice!! Thank you Joey for being the intrepid botanist we all need to inspire us!
"you can be religious and believe in evolution" my grandmother was a reverend and my grandfather was a evolutionary biology professor. they taught me that the universe is god's creation and science is just our means of trying to understand it as puny little humans. you can definitely have both.
Definitely feeling the need for some Wino Dwarfs. The bad taste ornaments were pure class.
Oooh, I want a “bum shittin’ on a brick wall” bathtub grotto… _with a spotlight!_
Sade has an amazing voice and such an interesting story to her life
great episode again, thanks for shout out to Sade, an old favorite.
I love to see these beautiful plants, so interesting.
Loved this! Please never stop making these videos
Just bought 2 shirts & a ballcap. Love what you do- thank you!
Those old people are really impressive with their plants!
Great tour! Huge smile on my face now.
As always, a breath of fresh air! Interesting it’s just basically one cactus per front garden. Reminds me of how contractors in the north drop in one tree and call it a landscape! 😅 I think they’d see return on investment if they took more care with planting!
Holy cool stuff Joey. Frickin beautiful
Thank you for sharing
They're called snowbirds. They fly down from Minnesota and go south to avoid the miserable weather in the north. The older I get the less I want to deal with winter and would probably do the same if I had the money. I love your channel and lectures. You're amazing. Thank you for breaking through. I'm inspired by you and have been looking at plants differently the last few years. Thank you. Love you.
Wow, so lovely! Dig the locals giving some context. How fun!
Love your vids!
Love you dude! This is great!
Thank you so much love your spirit
Kill me now if I had to live in one of those 'hoods. But I do LOVE me the Great Kiskadee!! ❤❤❤
Thank you for your eloquent Cactaceae advocacy!
Must have been a while since you spent a winter in Chicago. Now January and February have more thunderstorms than snow storms
Thanks for coming back down! Every video you make down here I learn a little bit more about my homeland. There are so many beautiful plants that I pass by every day and just wonder about. I wish you could've seen some of the flowers down here in early spring! Just fields and fields of white prickly poppies and Texas thistle. It was beautiful! I hope the heat and humidity wasn't too hard on you this week. Can't wait for your next installment 😊